Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hurrah for the Volunteer!
More humidity and more profanity.

The report that the decision of the Illinois Supreme court will be against the anarchists and that they must be hung is received as very good news, and with much hope that it will prove true.
 The little Indians at Pyramid agency stag ger under names which they will find it hard to Hive up to-" Among them are Mark Twa1n, Professor Young, Andy Jackson, John Logan, Jim Blaine, Dr. Dawson and Emma Nevada, Adelina Patti and Clara Morris. Eugene Higgins-the Higgins-is at Long
 Branch, and attracts much attention there.
 It is said that he doesn't look ''tough." He 1 bathes every morning in the surf, attends the races in the afternoon and spends his evenings at the clubs. It is said that he has won some hundreds of dollars at the races. His favorite drink is champagne.
 The President ought to go to Knoxville, invitation, that you do not pass by our beau tiful and growing metropolis, situated in the shadows of the great Cumberland as we'll as the Allegheny mountain ranges, and central to the beautiful valleys and rugged peaks of our own East Tennessee, to southwestern Virginia eastern Kentucky and western North Carolina, a country filled with people who will delight to meet you here by thousands and show their respect for you and your ex- alted position.
 MT. Hutton, who recently died in England, was "a natural bone setter" It is said of l him: He neither walked the hospitals nor even learnt the names of all the crevices in l the human skeleton. If he had had all the bones of human body thrown down before | him he would have been at great pains to I arrange them in order. Yet trained men sent patients with dislocations to him. He | had knack which was almost a genius for discovering what was the matter, and he 1 took the strongest, not to say the most vio- lent way, of putting bones together again in l their proper places While the cautious
 surgeon was thinking what might safely be
 done, he had done it. He was rarely unsuc- l cessful.
 South Newmarket, in New Hampshire, 8
 town with population of 800, is a notable | town, in that it has half 8 hundred citizens l who are over 70 and half dozen who are l over 80. A correspondent of the Exeter Newsletter tells about some of these old fellows MT. Jacob Wiggin (s1 next birth day) does all the work of hundred-acre farm, and chops from 60 to 100 cords of wood yearly into the bargain. "AS present" writes
 the correspondent, Che is doing his having, moving with machine in the forenoon and
 taking care of it alone in the afternoon, be- sides which he has the care of COW and @
 horse and does his own housework." MT.
 Jacob Hersey (S2) runs five hundred-acre l farm, but he has four hired men to help him.
 Squire Joseph Lang (sO does all the planning
 and bossing on farm of the same size as his
 neighbor Wiggin's, and attends to the light
 chores, but leaves the blowing, moving,
 etc., to the youngsters.
 It is interesting to read some of the expla- nations of the newspapers which believe in
 civil service reform and the President Thus
 the Boston Herald cheerily remarks: The
 President has enforced the law as it stands l in good faith. In some cases he has gone